I commute to university, and a good family friend (my neighbor) works there. Seeing as she makes my same trip daily, she has offered that I join her. I am paying for my own education so without her I take the bus (and wake up earlier), making me fortunate to have this arrangement. Therefore, I do my absolute best not to be a bother; whatever time she plans on leaving (early/late/on time), I am ready a few minutes ahead of time. On the days she stays home, I take the bus (I already pay for auto insurance; there's no need to drive/buy gas when public transit is available).

Yesterday, her husband and I were talking, and he feels (quite strongly) that I should pay to fill every other tank of gas. This leads me to two questions:

1) Is paying to fill every other tank too much?

2) I currently fill roughly every fourth tank, and buy her lunch about once a week. Is this sufficient, too much, or too little?

One thing that may (or may not) be of relevance: she will make the drive whether or not I'm with her.

Thanks for the input!

I'm moving into an apartment with a friend here soon (hopefully at least) I have rent, utilities, cable, phone, auto insurance, etc covered.

I was wondering how much it would cost to feed just me? I don't eat that much, a slice of toast for breakfast with half a glass of juice, and then just fruit and/or a 100 calories pack of something similar for lunch during classes. So very little all day and then just dinner really? maybe a few snacks just to have in the apartment, chips or something that would prob last a week plus. I'd consider myself a somewhat smart shopper also, not the best and not the worst.

I'd ask my dad but our shopping is sporadic so I don't know if I could get a good estimate.

And also, about how much for toilet paper, beauty supplies, laundry detergent, etc, all the little stuff you don't think about.

Thanks for any help! I know every area is different I'm just looking for a estimate, it will be in Ohio by the way.
Thanks again!

I was on my way to meet a friend for lunch and sitting about 3 cars back stopped for a red light on a semi-busy street at 11AM…the woman behind me stopped and then when the light turned green she just starts moving again and hits me, then she backed her car up about a foot or so. I didn't get out of the car to check the damage I called the police to come out and file a report. The policeman came and upon checking her insurance and license found that she had insurance but her license was from another country and she'd never had it changed to a Georgia license after moving here (he told me she should have gotten a GA license within 30 days of moving here). She had a small baby in the car with her and was going to be taken to jail…she spoke English to me when she asked to use my phone but then played like she didn't know ANY english to the cop. I feel horrible for calling the police and getting her arrested…but I also feel like I was obeying the law, minding my own business and she HIT me!! Should I feel bad?

There's this girl whose a friend of a friend. I've met this girl through the friend. how? when I have lunch with the friend he usually also meets up with her. So at lunch we all talk and everyone seems to be getting along. she give him things like gum and then say do you want one to me. Anyways I sent her a message on facebook saying hey I sent you a friends request. How've you been? She sends a message back saying I'm good thanks for asking. However, the friends request still says pending confirmation.

I have a wonderful 3 year old boy! he is my world but i'm getting a bit concerned, he will NOT play with other kids. He will play alone for hours, he will let me play with him sometimes, but not often! he is spending a week with his father and his father has a roommate with a 3 year old as well and she loves playing with him but he gets mad and hits and kicks her because she wont leave him alone! He will however sometimes play with my 6 year old niece. I'm concerned because he keeps himself away, He is not shy and will talk up a storm, but when it comes to playing he would rather be alone, after he eat breakfast he goes to his room shuts his door and plays until lunch, its the same thing after lunch until dinner time, when i go up there he says go away mommy i'm playing! I just don't get why he wont play with other kids, and why he insists on being alone! He is extremely happy and smiles all the time he laughs, he seems super happy, he will play with dog and my cat just not other kids! is that normal at his age? Even in a daycare setting he plays alone in a corner.

Well last school year ( i was year me and this guy i have known for ages (been in my class since i was little lol) were getting really good friends, and we live near each other so we usually walked home together. We often hung around the same place at break and lunch and we would talk and have fun with loads of other people. I sat next to him in a few classes and we talked then too.

But ever since the begginning of this year he suddenly has just not talked to me. We dont hang out anymore, we never walk home together anymore, and we never talk. And in maths he was asked to hand out the books with another person and he gave my book to the other person and she told me that he said he didnt know who i was!
Just so you know a few people have been JOKING saying we "like" each other, but I honestly have never thought of him like that, but I have no idea if he has!

hello i am 13 year old i am trying to lose weight because i weigh 125 pounds and im about 4ft8 i think small for my age i eat an albran for breakfast and for lunch i eat a meat sandwitch with ham and musterd when i get home from school i eat a fruit usally peaches or apples things like that then i bring my dog for a walk about 30 mins but now i will go alone runnig almost the whole way and i lost pounds doing that but it comes back up now i way like 124 now and before i saw 123 so im not sure what to do please help me.

So today in class, I sit in the back of the class, my friend sits next to me. In front of my friend is one kid (Kid A), and his friend sits in front of me (Kid B). So when the teacher was looking at us, Kid A was stretching, and you could see his stomach a little bit. So Kid B pretended he was going to poke him with a pencil. I started to chuckle a little bit, because it was funny, and so did my friend, but my teacher thought otherwise, keeping all four of us after class. When everyone was close to leaving, I told her "Ms. Teacher, I did my work the entire class, and I just laughed, I didn't do anything wrong," and all she replied was "Sit!" (which she said twice to me. Then she said, "You guys know why you're in here, because of your behavior. I just had to, because I knew in my heart I didn't do anything wrong, I said "But I didn't do anything wrong though, I just laughed, I was on task the entire time." And she turns to me and starts literally screaming at me "You know what, this can either take 2 minutes or 10 minutes, so do you want to stop interrupting me?!" She went on to say that me and my friend reacted, and "encouraged" that behavior. Ok I admit, I should've stayed quiet, but I just felt the urge to speak, because I've never been held during lunch, and I was scared at what would happen. She should NOT have raised her voice at me like that, even my mom doesn't raise her voice like that at me. She shouldn't even be a teacher if she can't control her anger. I think she should have just kept Kid A and Kid B, because me and my friend just reacted to the situation, which does not encourage that behavior. We just got her as a teacher, and I think she should know by now that I'm very mature, and I'm not someone that encourage that behavior. I'm really mature for my age, and I don't condone that behavior, but come on, we're teenagers, lighten up! Should I tell my parents what happened? I don't want them to think that I did anything wrong, and I especially don't want them emailing her, however I will want them to email her if she docks my citizenship grade.

Also, on previous occasions, like yesterday, we were having a little "debate," and I said something similar as to what another classmate said, and she gave the class a lecture about how to have a debate. And today, she assigned an extra credit assignment, and I asked if one certain book would meet the requirements, and she gave me a pretty sarcastic answer, instead of just saying a simple "That book's fine."

I'm a straight A student, and I honestly don't appreciate the way that she yelled at me, and the way she answered my question.

My hubby has been working 480 miles away for over 6 weeks now and we've only seen him twice. He got a promotion but in turn, has to stay up there for an extended amount of time. this has been really hard on us. more on me i think. I've been stuck at home with our 1 yr old and no car. i have to rely on my mother for transportation and any support i need. he works in the oilfield, so if he wants time off, he can take as much as he wants, but he can't come back. idk why but thats how they work. our financial situation has been 100% stressful for the past few months and just now is going to straighten out. I'm very young, 18 on Wed. and he was my first love and the man i lost my virginity to. I'm not going to say my age has nothing to do with it, cuz it does. but only with how well i can handle situations. it does not affect how good of a parent or wife i am. cuz i am very good at both of them. i just get overwhelmed sometimes and he's not here to support me. this morning though he had a sex dream about us and texted it to me and i didn't know cuz i had gotten stressed out this morning. everything hits me in bursts and i cant deal with it. so my baby was asleep in her crib in her room and i went into our bedroom and just laid there. and my texts didnt go thru after i found his texts so he got mad at me thinking i was doing something "bad" i.e. cheating. but he later said he was just joking and that if he thought i was cheating he wouldnt be with me. and he asked what i thought of his dream and i wasnt in the mood to sext, so i just said what it was and i guess that pissed him off. and then i had to fix lunch for my baby and me and he again thought i was doing something bad cuz i wasnt texting him. and then he started acting like he never has before. like it wasnt even him. so i asked if he left his phone on charge in the bunk house and if someone else was pretending to be him, but then he blew up about that too saying that everyonce in awhile he has a dream about us and at least it wasnt some other girl like it was another guy in all my dreams, even though he KNOWS i cant help it. so i might have been a bit of a ***** about it all, but more defensive and catty than bitchy. now, age aside, i know its silly but its a dumb thing to get upset about. rudeness aside, what do you think is really going on

Let me start off by saying I am a sophomore. he is a senior.

I started talking to him in November, at first I thought he was a little weird but he grew on me, and by December we were talking out of school 6+ times a week, almost always initiated by him, and by Christmas I had a pretty big thing for him, and the more time we talked the better things got. I didn't like that his last girlfriend was 23, and from halfway across the globe, and they dated when he was 17 (he is 18 now), but I figured he is young, and she pulled him in and that it wasn't his fault and she screwed him over. We even had a dateish thing at the end of January, where on a half day he drove me home, I made him lunch and we watched across the universe, and he stayed for 5 hours and still didn't want to leave! It was so cute, and I was sure soon enough we might be official, I wasn't totally obsessed with him, but I am one of those cute but relationship challenged girls, and it made me excited something was actually going right.

So about two weeks ago (snow day) I get a text from asking if I'm up, I joke saying no, I'm texting you in my sleep, thinking it will be one of our stupid and silly convo's again, and he said we need to talk, and it might make things awkward. I tell him to go on, and he asks me if I like him more than a friend, I say right now I just consider us friends, but I would not object if something more were to come out of it. I then flip the question on him, and he said yes, he is into me but I am so young, so he resists his urges, right now we should just be friends, but it would be really nice if something were to come out of it in the future. I say the age thing would have never crossed my mind (18 and almost 16) but the possibility of a future will drive me insane, and I just wish I knew what he was thinking. He says the he is trying to heal over his ex, and right now he just wants sex, and he would just take advantage of me, and he respects me. All in 2 sentances. So I say I appreciate his honesty, and he is right, we should just be friends. He then goes on how he fell in love with his ex, and all he needs is time, time to heal. I mean come on, you went out with her for two months, she lives halfway across the world, and I get she was your first but you BROKE UP 3 MONTHS AGO, BE A MAN AND GET OVER IT. So I put that into nicer terms and say you really have a lot to figure out, and you need to move on with your life. He texts me later that night to apologize for hurting me, and I say you didn't, so there is no need to apologize.

So ever since then I have been ignoring him in school, and he imed me on VALENTINES DAY but I ignored that as well. I feel bad ignoring him but at the same time I feel deceived, everyone around me thought I was way too good for him in every aspect, but that didn't matter because I thought he was the sweetest guy ever and I felt what I was "sold on", wasn't the truth at all. And I get sex is what 95% of guys beetween the ages 0f 13-21 are looking for, and I am not a complete prude, but I mean to say all I want is sex straight out to a girl you have only talked to for a few months strikes me as kind of odd to be honest. Do you think I am being a beotch for ignoring him, or am I doing the right thing?

_Yes I posted this yesterday, but I was asked for more info and for it to be more organized so, TADA!